• shalafi@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I have a .45 Hi-Point carbine. Flawless operation, had never malfunctioned, weighs 10-pounds, impossible to clean. Along with other… odd design choices.

        Hi-Points are what you get by giving a group a very smart engineers a list of things the product needs to do. A group of engineers that has never seen an actual gun.

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          2 months ago

          I have a Sig Sauer p320, had to send it in to get the “drop issue” fixed. Doesn’t matter how much you spend, engineering failures are everywhere. Not so much a knock on Hi Point as the neighborhood is live in. The one I found discarded in my yard two years ago had been rusted to the point of being inoperable.

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            2 months ago

            Another Person of Culture and Class I see. I too have a Sig P365XL.

            Though I prefer my Remington New Army for most things.

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      2 months ago

      Kids just primarily prefer a handgun cartridge that’s suitable for putting into a rifle for game hunting. It simplifies what sort of ammunition to carry in their backpack. .45 long colt or .357 magnum should do the trick. 10mm auto if you’re dead set on semiautomatic.